Walking Disaster · Sum 41

245 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 5:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
245
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-48, 50-72 and 76-77, and 15 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
WALKING DISASTER · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 75, 79, 82, 83, 98, 99 and 15 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 82-83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 98-101 · LANDS ON BAR 102 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

245 bars across 12 sections: 200 keep time, 21 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-35.

PART C
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesECSPA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Walking Disaster?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Walking Disaster hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

245 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Walking Disaster?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 75, 79, 82, 83, 98, 99 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 245 BARS ANALYSED
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